School: Kilcullen (B.)
- Location:
- Cill Chuillinn, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Broin
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- (continued from previous page)wheat.
There is a rhyme about mag-pies which is also a warning.
One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a wedding
And four for to die.
It is said to be unlucky to break a mirror on a Monday. If you pass under a ladder you will have seven years of ill-luck.
If there is a stick sparkling in the fire and whoever a spark hits is said to get money.
- In a place near this town named Sunnyhill there is a fort. It is a big round circle with wild flowers growing in it. The farmer whose land it is on tilled it one year(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maithiú Ó Ceallaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cill Chuillinn, Co. Chill Dara
- Informant
- Mr James Keegan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Cill Chuillinn, Co. Chill Dara
